Not sure if this is correct place for this...if it's not, then someone can move it.
I apologize in advance if I come across as foul-tempered and/or snarky...I'm frustrated with the situation I'll describe below combined with 3-4 days of back & forth with 'Customer Service' which led no-where.
Not going to name system nor groups or even Factions involved...leave as 'generic', so no-one can accuse me of naming/shaming, etc. -- I ran 42-plus Missions for a Faction from a station they controlled, in a system they were in a 'Retreat State' in. During the time I ran the missions I was very careful to take only missions which rewarded 5+++++ Influence, and I was careful to accept only the reward for the 5+++++ Influence of the three rewards possible on successful mission completion.
The Faction's Influence was at 1% when I started...during the time I ran the Missions (3-plus days) the faction's Influence rating/level never moved from 1%. If it was necessary to run many,many more missions that the 40-plus I ran/completed should the Influence not have moved at least a little? If, as was suggested to me elsewhere, hundreds of Missions were necessary to stall/prevent the 'Retreat' I would've thought that the 40-plus I completed would have at least moved the Influence rating/level a tenth of a percentage point...yet it never moved from 1%, and on fourth day they were ejected from the system.
Where would I be able to see any change I am making in the Faction's Influence level? I was looking at the system map, on the tab which shows all the Factions present in a system...I checked it 4-5 times each day and not once did the faction's influence change from 1%. I was told that there is a "Tick" which occurs daily, and the influence would not show any change until after that tick happened...but after checking over and over each day, not once did the influence rating change by even a tenth of one percentage point. How am I to tell if I am doing anything positive, or just wasting my time? It took many hours to run the missions (mostly 'Source & Return' but a few were also Courier Missions), but I saw not even one-tenth of a percentage point change. If the number of missions I ran/completed were not enough to raise the Faction's Influence level high enough to bring them out of the Retreat state, should they not have made at least some small affect? I saw zero affect from the missions, and to me something just seems "not right" from my perspective.
EDIT: After re-reading what I wrote above, need to add: I am aware and understand that if other players are running missions to work against the faction I am trying to support, the bigger numbers win -- I think of it as a scale and one side goes up and one side goes down; but even if the 'other side' put more weight (more missions) on their side of the scale, the amount I put into it should have registered at least 'something'...but during the days I ran the missions the influence never moved at all.
I apologize in advance if I come across as foul-tempered and/or snarky...I'm frustrated with the situation I'll describe below combined with 3-4 days of back & forth with 'Customer Service' which led no-where.
Not going to name system nor groups or even Factions involved...leave as 'generic', so no-one can accuse me of naming/shaming, etc. -- I ran 42-plus Missions for a Faction from a station they controlled, in a system they were in a 'Retreat State' in. During the time I ran the missions I was very careful to take only missions which rewarded 5+++++ Influence, and I was careful to accept only the reward for the 5+++++ Influence of the three rewards possible on successful mission completion.
The Faction's Influence was at 1% when I started...during the time I ran the Missions (3-plus days) the faction's Influence rating/level never moved from 1%. If it was necessary to run many,many more missions that the 40-plus I ran/completed should the Influence not have moved at least a little? If, as was suggested to me elsewhere, hundreds of Missions were necessary to stall/prevent the 'Retreat' I would've thought that the 40-plus I completed would have at least moved the Influence rating/level a tenth of a percentage point...yet it never moved from 1%, and on fourth day they were ejected from the system.
Where would I be able to see any change I am making in the Faction's Influence level? I was looking at the system map, on the tab which shows all the Factions present in a system...I checked it 4-5 times each day and not once did the faction's influence change from 1%. I was told that there is a "Tick" which occurs daily, and the influence would not show any change until after that tick happened...but after checking over and over each day, not once did the influence rating change by even a tenth of one percentage point. How am I to tell if I am doing anything positive, or just wasting my time? It took many hours to run the missions (mostly 'Source & Return' but a few were also Courier Missions), but I saw not even one-tenth of a percentage point change. If the number of missions I ran/completed were not enough to raise the Faction's Influence level high enough to bring them out of the Retreat state, should they not have made at least some small affect? I saw zero affect from the missions, and to me something just seems "not right" from my perspective.
EDIT: After re-reading what I wrote above, need to add: I am aware and understand that if other players are running missions to work against the faction I am trying to support, the bigger numbers win -- I think of it as a scale and one side goes up and one side goes down; but even if the 'other side' put more weight (more missions) on their side of the scale, the amount I put into it should have registered at least 'something'...but during the days I ran the missions the influence never moved at all.
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